Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
SINCLAIR LEWISI, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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